Definitions for kilometer
kilo·me·ter

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. kilometer, kilometre, km, klicknoun

   a metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles)

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. kilometer

   The kilometre (SI symbol: km; or ), spelt kilometer in American English, is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), equal to one thousand metres (kilo- being the SI prefix for 1000). It is now the measurement unit used for expressing distances between geographical places on land in most of the world; notable exceptions are the United States and the United Kingdom where the statute mile is the main unit used. The abbreviations k or K (pronounced ) are commonly used to represent kilometre, but are not recommended by the BIPM. A slang term for the kilometre in the US, UK, and Canadian militaries is klick.

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1. kilometer

   A kilometer is a unit of length or distance in the metric system, equivalent to one thousand meters. It is commonly used in countries that have adopted the metric system for measuring distances between places.

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1. Kilometernoun

   alt. of Kilometre

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1. Kilometer

   The kilometre is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one thousand metres. It is now the measurement unit used officially for expressing distances between geographical places on land in most of the world; notable exceptions are the United States and the United Kingdom where the statute mile is the official unit used. k is occasionally used in some English-speaking countries as an alternative for the word kilometre in everyday writing and speech. A slang term for the kilometre in the U.S. military is klick.

The Standard Electrical DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Kilometer

   A compound unit; one thousand meters; 3280.899 feet; 0.621382 statute miles. (See Meter.)

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1. • Metric Linear Unit

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1. kilometre

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of kilometer in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of kilometer in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of kilometer in a Sentence

1. Johnny Rodrigues:

   They went hunting at night with a spotlight, and they spotted Cecil, they tied a dead animal to their vehicle to lure Cecil out of the park, and they scented an area about half a kilometer from the park.

2. Richard Kuprewicz:

   My experience suggests this would be a darned hard leak to remotely determine quickly, an opening of this type, on a 17-mile-long (27-kilometer) underwater pipe is very hard to spot by remote indications. These crack-type releases are lower rate and can go for quite a while.

3. Abu Sahman:

   We were about one kilometer from the main gate of Es Sider oil port, but we had to withdraw about two kilometers after Haftar's planes carried out air strikes, which killed two of our members and wounded three.

4. Eliud Kipchoge:

   From the first kilometer, I was really comfortable, i have been training for this for four and a half months, I have been putting my heart and mind to run under two hours for a marathon and make history.

5. Veenu Gupta:

   We have to do a very intensive survey within a 3 kilometer radius of where the first case was recorded.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=kilometer
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilometer
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kilometer
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=kilometer
6. ^ The Standard Electrical Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26535/pg26535-images.html#:~:text=kilometer